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Augustin Saint-Hilaire

1779 - 1853

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Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire (4 October 1779 – 3 September 1853) was French botanist and traveller who was born and died in Orléans, France. A keen observer, he is credited with important discoveries in botany, notably the direction of the radicle in the embryo sac and the double point of attachment of certain ovules. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Augustin Saint-Hilaire has received more than 31,352 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Augustin Saint-Hilaire is the 552nd most popular biologist (up from 607th in 2019), the 3,809th most popular biography from France (up from 3,859th in 2019) and the 76th most popular French Biologist.

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  • 50.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Augustin Saint-Hilaire has had the most page views in the with 12,989 views, followed by English (5,014), and French (2,262). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malayalam (85.05%), Egyptian Arabic (82.50%), and Vietnamese (54.83%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Augustin Saint-Hilaire ranks 552 out of 1,097. Before him are Harald Sverdrup, Otto von Münchhausen, Akira Miyawaki, John Gilbert Baker, Alice Hamilton, and Otto Kuntze. After him are Salomon Müller, Johann Gerhard König, Oscar Hertwig, Edward Forbes, Andrew Smith, and Johannes Burman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Augustin Saint-Hilaire ranks 28. Before him are Adam Müller, Ali-Morad Khan Zand, Filippo Paulucci, Jean Coralli, Francis Scott Key, and Louis de Freycinet. After him are Johann Schweigger, Tabitha Babbitt, Washington Allston, José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, 4th Marquess of Torre Tagle, Stephen Decatur, and Joel Roberts Poinsett. Among people deceased in 1853, Augustin Saint-Hilaire ranks 39. Before him are Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Sarah Goodridge, Maria Quitéria, and Louis Visconti. After him are Juan Álvarez Mendizábal, Cesare Balbo, William R. King, Lucas Alamán, Andrés Narvarte, and Tabitha Babbitt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Augustin Saint-Hilaire ranks 3,809 out of 6,770. Before him are Maurice Schumann (1911), Henri Dentz (1881), Paul Fort (1872), Chlodulf of Metz (null), Eddy Mitchell (1942), and Mathilda May (1965). After him are Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (1852), Henri Braconnot (1780), Antoine Bussy (1794), Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark (1910), Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys (1805), and Gérard Lanvin (1950).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Augustin Saint-Hilaire ranks 76. Before him are Paul Gervais (1816), Eugène Simon (1848), Marie Jules César Savigny (1777), Paul Bert (1833), Jean-Pierre Changeux (1936), and Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778). After him are Jean de Thévenot (1633), Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan (1814), Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715), Antoine Risso (1777), Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800), and René Dubos (1901).

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